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Widespread Use of Migratory Megafauna for Aquatic Wild Meat in the Tropics and Subtropics
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Wild animals are captured or taken opportunistically, and the meat, body parts, and/or eggs are consumed for local subsistence or used for traditional purposes to some extent across most of the world, particularly in the tropics and subtropics.
Daniel J. Ingram +24 more
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Associated benefits of manatee watching in the Costa dos Corais Environmental Protection Area
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Marine mammals provide diverse and interconnected ecosystem services. According to the literature, the use of these services is associated with human needs related to provision, ecosystem regulation, education, culture, spirituality, and recreation ...
Flávia Bonfietti Izidoro +5 more
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Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2023 Marine mammal watching is a non-consumptive wildlife-oriented tourism practice. Trichechus manatus manatus (hereinafter – Antillean manatee) belongs to the charismatic marine megafauna and is subject to this practice at many places.
Paula D. F. Coutinho +2 more
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New findings of Prototherium ausetanum (Mammalia, Pan-Sirenia) from paving stones in Girona (Catalonia, Spain)? [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2023 Taxonomic and morphological approaches on Eocene sirenians from Catalonia (Spain) benefit from a newly discovered specimen found in a quite unusual locality, the pedestrian zone in the city of Girona. Two fossil-bearing limestone slabs from middle Eocene
Manja Voss +3 more
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The Relevance of Ecological Transitions to Intelligence in Marine Mammals
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Macphail’s comparative approach to intelligence focused on associative processes, an orientation inconsistent with more multifaceted lay and scientific understandings of the term.
Gordon B. Bauer +6 more
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3D genital shape complexity in female marine mammals
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Comparisons of 3D shapes have recently been applied to diverse anatomical structures using landmarking techniques. However, discerning evolutionary patterns can be challenging for structures lacking homologous landmarks.
Dara N. Orbach +3 more
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, 2023 Sirenians are a well-known example of morphological adaptation to a shallow-water grazing diet characterized by a modified feeding apparatus and orofacial morphology.
C. A. Emerling (17381782) +7 more
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Guidelines for developing protected areas for sirenians
, 2012 [Extract] The range of sirenians spans almost 90 subtropical and tropical countries and territories on five continents. Most of these countries are classified as less developed.
Marsh, Helene +3 more
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Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2009 A criptosporidiose constitui-se como uma zoonose que pode afetar o homem e uma ampla variedade de animais domésticos e silvestres, principalmente indivíduos imunodeficientes.
João Carlos Gomes Borges +4 more
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Iterative evolution of sympatric seacow (Dugongidae, Sirenia) assemblages during the past ~26 million years. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Extant sirenians show allopatric distributions throughout most of their range. However, their fossil record shows evidence of multispecies communities throughout most of the past ∼26 million years, in different oceanic basins.
Jorge Velez-Juarbe +2 more
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